“The Holocaust’s true lesson is that there is no greater potential for evil than powerful centralized government.”

Those words were written by black columnist and economist Walter Williams 15 years ago and need to be repeated today.

He also wrote, “Whatever hate [and] violence experienced by the … Jews, while deeply offensive, could not have developed into the systematic brutality it did … without an all powerful, highly centralized national government [which] tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know better than everyone else.”

Hitler consolidated the unions into the Nazi party and then used government to take over agriculture and food prices.

When a nation sets its government as national benefactor, “there is nothing [its] leaders must not be prepared to do if it furthers their agenda,” continued Williams. First, the richer folks’ wealth is redistributed in the name of justice. Then the middle class is penalized for “luxuries.” Then everyone has to buy some nationalized product. Soon, no one has money.

Our national government is collecting its strength. It has multiplied our country’s debt several fold and has taken over another sixth of our economy, healthcare.